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Tunisia's coast guard retrieved the bodies of nine people who died after their boat sank on Thursday, marking the latest disaster for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. The coast guard also retrieved 45 people from the boat after it started to fill with water four miles (about six kilometers) off the coast of Zarzis, a common departure point near Tunisia's border with Libya. Coast guard spokesman Houssameddine Jbabli said the boat, which was carrying non-Tunisian passengers, likely embarked from Libya and that survivors were transported to a local hospital in...

The Coast Guard resumed its enforcement activities at the same time that Von der Leyen announced new plans with the North African country, in a letter to the European Council

At least 18 people have died near the Libyan border, after being deported from the country that has just signed a migration agreement with the EU. Humanitarian organizations have denounced the expulsions. At the moment, around 200 migrants are living along the Tunisia-Libya border in subhuman conditions.